WTF Is It Now?!?

"A failure of both Congress and the media to question the president's motives or to challenge the statements coming from the White House and Pentagon"
Walt Brasch on the 'the complicity of the media who abrogated their responsibilities and made it seem that challenging anything the president said would be treason':

'At the time president Bush was telling the U.N. and the American people that he had no plans to go to war with Iraq, his administration officials were meeting in secret with several industry giants with financial and political ties to the Administration to develop a plan for a post-war Iraq.

'One of those giants was Bechtel, a multi-nation conglomerate with close financial ties to the White House. Another was a subsidiary of Halliburton, the multi-billion dollar oil company that once had Dick Cheney as its CEO.

'In a few months, Americans may be shocked that Iraq didn't help al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, that it didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and that there may have been collusion between the Administration and major corporations to reap financial rewards for rebuilding a country that the U.S. destroyed. We should be shocked - but we should also be in awe of how well the president and his administration spun their messages of war, and how dizzy the major media must have been to have accepted the words unchallenged.'